NSX LB Virtual Server status shows as "Deactivated" when created or modified via API

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• NSX LB was created or modified using the following API:
  PATCH /policy/api/v1/infra/lb-virtual-servers/{lb-virtual-server-id}
• The API request body includes "enabled": false.
• The Virtual Server status shows as "Deactivated" in the Networking > Load Balancing > Virtual Servers.
• The traffic is hitting the Virtual Server IP but not transferred to any of the pool members
• In the NSX-T Edge log (/var/log/syslog) the following errors are seen:
  

  <TIMESTAMP> <EDGE HOSTNAME> NSX <ID> LOAD-BALANCER [nsx@<ID> comp="nsx-edge" subcomp="lb" s2comp="lb" level="INFO"] [<UUID> Operation.Category: 'LbEvent', Operation.Type: 'StatusChange', Obj.Type: 'VirtualServer', Obj.UUID: '<UUID>', Obj.Name: '<NAME>', Lb.UUID: '<UUID>', Lb.Name: '<NAME>', Status.NewStatus: 'Disabled', Status.Msg: 'virtual server is disabled'

Environment

VMware NSX

Cause

The Virtual Server will be disabled when the "enabled" parameter is set to false.
The current settings can be retrieved via GET /policy/api/v1/infra/lb-virtual-servers/.

Resolution

Please set the "enabled" parameter to true.

Additional Information

NSX-T Data Center REST API - Create or update a LBVirtualServer